The Conservative Thread: Back to Basics. Pass the Lasagna and Have a Flower!!

[TLSnell1981]

Okay...I hear music but, I can't get the "requests" to lay. HELP!!

 

[studentmom]

Hi everyone!

Wow, so I'm wondering how Diane Sawyer was able to snag an interview with Mr. Ayers, since Fox literally had to chase him down and still got nothing. I think DS will go easy on him. Maybe Ayers figures that since his buddy got elected president, he doesn't have anything to hide anymore?

mfd25wife-- I am so sorry to hear about the young man. They Bailey's will be in my thoughts and prayers.

 

[SorcererDonald16]

I can't get anything to play from subsonic, either, but I think it's my wmp and not the site.
I also still need to register, though. Can you only listen to songs that are currently playing? I'd love to listen to Haunted Mansion, too.

If you're not registered, you can only hear the set feeds they have or the requests other people make. If you register, you can request whatever you have the points for. You just have to wait for your song to be first in the queue. Ex.: Right now there's a song playing and 3 more in queue. If I requested a song right now, it'd be the 4th song to play after the current one finishes.

Could someone post or PM that link for me? Seeing you all so excited has me curious. I want to check it out.

www.subsonicradio.com

Okay...I hear music but, I can't get the "requests" to lay. HELP!!

Do you mean you can't hear the request feed, or you can't figure out how to request music? Sorry, I'm a bit slow on the uptake today. Will help you as best I can if I have a better idea of what the problem is.

 

[debbieandroo]

Does this make anyone else nervous besides me? Like the part about bypassing the media to get his message across?

I'm thinking of signing up myself --

Obama to pioneer Web outreach as president
Published: 11/12/08, 6:26 PM EDT
By BETH FOUHY
NEW YORK (AP) - Transition officials call it Obama 2.0 - an ambitious effort to transform the president-elect's vast Web operation and database of supporters into a modern new tool to accomplish his goals in the White House. If it works, the new president could have an unprecedented ability to appeal for help from millions of Americans who already favor his ideas, bypassing the news media to pressure Congress.

"He's built the largest network anyone has ever seen in politics, and congressional Republicans are clueless about the communications shift that has happened," Democratic strategist Joe Trippi proclaims. The results, he says, "will be amazing to watch."

Republicans say they'll be watching for White House Web outreach that appears overly political.

"Hopefully, Obama will be a president for all Americans, not just the political supporters on his e-mail list," said Republican National Committee spokesman Alex Conant.

Obama's people know they'll have to extend their reach.

During his 21-month campaign, Obama built a list of 3.1 million contributors and over 10 million supporters who helped power his victories over Democratic rival Hillary Rodham Clinton and Republican John McCain. In addition to helping raise a staggering $660 million, the campaign's Web effort reinforced his message and themes, responded to political attacks and created volunteer social networks that served as the basis for his field operation.

Obama's team is determining how best to convert his army of online activists into a viral lobbying and communications machine. Staffers are reluctant to discuss specifics, but Obama clearly is poised to become the first truly "wired" president of the digital age.

For legal and privacy reasons, Obama's campaign list must be kept separate from White House operations. Aides are figuring out if that list should be run through the Democratic National Committee or as a freestanding political entity that will eventually become his 2012 re-election committee.

But transition officials have already begun a new digital outreach effort, based on the campaign model, aimed at supporters and others interested in being connected to the activities of the Obama White House.

The transition operation has a new Web site, http://www.change.gov, designed for anyone who wants to post a message of congratulations, offer suggestions for the new administration or apply for a government job. People are invited to submit their names and e-mail addresses, with the goal of creating a new list for the president-elect to tap when he wants to communicate directly about a program he's promoting or seek help urging members of Congress to support legislation he's proposed.

"Just imagine what happens when a congressman comes back to his district and 500 people are lined up for his town hall meeting because they got an e-mail from Obama urging them to attend," said Thomas Gensemer, managing partner of Blue State Digital which designed Obama's campaign Web site and change.gov.

Gensemer said to be most effective, Obama needs to make clear that his Web outreach efforts aren't directed only at partisan Democrats.

"If you're looking to build a community as president, the net needs to be cast a little broader," Gensemer said. "If you want to bring Republicans along, you use the Web to say, 'Work with me. Help me cut through the partisan rancor.'"

Such direct online contact with voters could also present a challenge for reporters covering Obama, since the new president will in many ways be able to bypass traditional media while also taking advantage of it to reinforce his online messaging.

"He can do a half-hour YouTube address every Saturday, addressing millions," Trippi said. "The networks would never give the president that much television time each week, but the press is still going to have to cover what he says on YouTube."

Aides say the Obama team will staff a robust "new media" operation out of the White House and plans a complete overhaul of the White House Web site to make it more interactive and user-friendly. On the campaign trail, Obama promised to use the Internet to make his administration more open, such as offering a detailed look at what's going on in the White House on a given day or asking people to post comments on his legislative proposals.

Such freewheeling use of new technology also carries certain risks, as Obama discovered last summer when he signaled he would vote in the Senate for a sweeping intelligence surveillance law reviled by liberal activists. Thousands of angry supporters jammed his campaign Web site to express their outrage - a phenomenon that could easily be repeated when he becomes president.

There are also limits for reaching citizens not yet on the digital grid.

Peter Daou, who ran Internet operations for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, said her campaign's Web outreach was limited by the fact that older and lower-income people - demographic groups most supportive of the former first lady - weren't using the Internet for communication. Obama will need to find ways to reach those people, Daou said.

"We spent a year trying to bring these people to the Web, and President Obama and his team will have to do the same thing," Daou said. "It requires a huge public relations effort, using more traditional communications efforts to invite then to participate this way."

 

[TLSnell1981]

Do you mean you can't hear the request feed, or you can't figure out how to request music? Sorry, I'm a bit slow on the uptake today. Will help you as best I can if I have a better idea of what the problem is.

I made a request. It showed where it was in the que. I couldn't hear the music that was being played "now". How do I find where my request is being played?

 

[SorcererDonald16]

Does this make anyone else nervous besides me? Like the part about bypassing the media to get his message across?

I'm thinking of signing up myself --

Yup. Some of my friends signed up for the text message about his VP pick even though they weren't voting for him. I told them at the time I thought it was a stunt to get people's cell phone numbers so he could have/create a database. "Oh no, his people are just gonna send the text about the VP pick." Yeah, then they got texts about watching one of the debates on CNN (later corrected to just say watch the debate), and I think a couple of others as well. They were not happy about it. How much you wanna bet he continues sending text messages to those people?

 

[studentmom]

Does this make anyone else nervous besides me? Like the part about bypassing the media to get his message across?

I'm thinking of signing up myself --

That is very scary.

 

[SorcererDonald16]

I made a request. It showed where it was in the que. I couldn't hear the music that was being played "now". How do I find where my request is being played?

You have to have the "Request" feed playing on your computer to hear it. If you're playing the scheduled feed or one of the others (Background, Soarin', Star Tunnel) you won't hear it. Did you have the request feed open and playing? What song was it you requested?

 

[debbieandroo]

i'm searching knowledge bases to see if this is a known issue.

- are you on apple or pc?
- what version of windows are you using if on pc?
- if you're on apple, what os (EWW!!!), i mean operating system are you using?

Okay - I'm on a PC and am not exactly sure what version of windows I am using. It's a fairly new computer so .....

NEWS FLASH! I figured it out!!!! I had been opening up subsonic on firefox -- in replying to your question, wonder, I thought - hey maybe this will work on IE...so I opened it up in IE and Voila!

Thanks for all the help, you guys!

 

[SorcererDonald16]

Okay - I'm on a PC and am not exactly sure what version of windows I am using. It's a fairly new computer so .....

NEWS FLASH! I figured it out!!!! I had been opening up subsonic on firefox -- in replying to your question, wonder, I thought - hey maybe this will work on IE...so I opened it up in IE and Voila!

Thanks for all the help, you guys!

Your Firefox browser must have something in it blocking it or not compatible with it. Odd because I open the site with Firefox and have no trouble. Do you have the most current version of it? Regardless, I'm glad it's working for ya now.

On that note, night all! Happy Friday.

 

[debbieandroo]

Your Firefox browser must have something in it blocking it or not compatible with it. Odd because I open the site with Firefox and have no trouble. Do you have the most current version of it? Regardless, I'm glad it's working for ya now.

On that note, night all! Happy Friday.

*His truth goes marching on, bum bum a bum..*

oh, what was that you were saying, SD? [getting a little carried away by the tunes, I guess!]

About Firefox, almost every ding-dang time I turn on my computer, it asks me to update - I don't 'update' my socks that often! So, it *should* be updated but who knows? I've had the same problem with watching videos on Firefox [although that's gotten better lately]

Now, how do I figure out what I'm listening to? Ha - never mind, I just found the 'now playing' button....

Goodness, with an email exchange like this, one could hope I never run for office - how dumb am I!??!?!?!?

 

[blestmom]

I don't know if this has already been posted...

MSNBC retracts false Palin story; others duped

By DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

(11-12) 20:33 PST NEW YORK, (AP) --

MSNBC was the victim of a hoax when it reported that an adviser to John McCain had identified himself as the source of an embarrassing story about former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, the network said Wednesday.

David Shuster, an anchor for the cable news network, said on air Monday that Martin Eisenstadt, a McCain policy adviser, had come forth and identified himself as the source of a Fox News Channel story saying Palin had mistakenly believed Africa was a country instead of a continent.

Eisenstadt identifies himself on a blog as a senior fellow at the Harding Institute for Freedom and Democracy. Yet neither he nor the institute exist; each is part of a hoax dreamed up by a filmmaker named Eitan Gorlin and his partner, Dan Mirvish, the New York Times reported Wednesday.

The Eisenstadt claim had mistakenly been delivered to Shuster by a producer and was used in a political discussion Monday afternoon, MSNBC said.

"The story was not properly vetted and should not have made air," said Jeremy Gaines, network spokesman. "We recognized the error almost immediately and ran a correction on air within minutes."

Gaines told the Times that someone in the network's newsroom had presumed the information solid because it was passed along in an e-mail from a colleague.

 

[mfd25wife]

Good Morning,everyone.

Thanks for the subsonicradio. I didn't see the link, but since you guys talked about it, I found the site. DH is convinced I'm going to burn out on Disney. Now, I wish the connection on my office pc had not gone out so i could listen there also. Our IT guy says I'm getting a better stronger one soon so I'm hoping it will be real soon. He and I are working on an upgrade to our system so I know he's even more swamped than I am. For some reason, I became our security administrator so my part is deciding the accesses everyone gets and making sure the champions are training them like they are supposed to. His is worse since he has to make sure all the printers, rf units and pc's all over the plant are ready. So, cross your fingers for me that the upgrade goes smoothly next week so I can get my puter and listen to Disney at work.

 

[mfd25wife]

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[Charade]

Bill Ayers is on now. It's Chris interviewing him. He's pressing him hard but Billy Boy is standing his ground. I absolutely detest this man. And he's a liar.

 

[agentpleakley]

I'm going to post and then try to catch up.

My friends' son killed himself this morning. He just turned 18. We just came home from their house. It's been a really really sad day. Please say a prayer for the Bailey family in the loss of their son and brother. His little sister is my DD's friend. He cheered competitively with Ashley one year, and his sister did for three years and they were friends. I want to comfort them the best I can, but I know there is not a lot I can do but be there and listen and pray. I'm worried about her after everyone leaves.

I am so very sorry. My prayers are with you and this family. We went through this a few years ago with one of DH's best friends. It is a very emotional time.

 

[MeghansMommy]

Good morning everyone! Hope you all have a wonderful day today!

I'm going to post and then try to catch up.

My friends' son killed himself this morning. He just turned 18. We just came home from their house. It's been a really really sad day. Please say a prayer for the Bailey family in the loss of their son and brother. His little sister is my DD's friend. He cheered competitively with Ashley one year, and his sister did for three years and they were friends. I want to comfort them the best I can, but I know there is not a lot I can do but be there and listen and pray. I'm worried about her after everyone leaves.

I am so sorry for your loss. What a horrible, horrible thing. Words can't describe....

Perhaps they did!! And the playlist is now in my iTunes so I don't have to get online to listen.... HECK YES!!!!!!

Ughhhh.... how can you lose 25 pages of notes for a class?? I just had all my notes for Western Civ I printed and on my dresser and now I've flippin' lost them.... I'm thinking I might've gathered them up with some garbage and thrown them out. So back to the computer lab tomorrow morning to print ANOTHER copy.....

I hope you find them soon. What a bummer.

Does this make anyone else nervous besides me? Like the part about bypassing the media to get his message across?

I'm thinking of signing up myself --

Is it 2013 yet? Every day I'm more and more bothered by this guy.

I don't know if this has already been posted...

MSNBC retracts false Palin story; others duped

By DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

(11-12) 20:33 PST NEW YORK, (AP) --

SNIP

Gaines told the Times that someone in the network's newsroom had presumed the information solid because it was passed along in an e-mail from a colleague.

Some solid journalism there!

Bobby Jindal is on FOX right now. I love this guy.

 

[rie'smom]

I'm going to post and then try to catch up.

My friends' son killed himself this morning. He just turned 18. We just came home from their house. It's been a really really sad day. Please say a prayer for the Bailey family in the loss of their son and brother. His little sister is my DD's friend. He cheered competitively with Ashley one year, and his sister did for three years and they were friends. I want to comfort them the best I can, but I know there is not a lot I can do but be there and listen and pray. I'm worried about her after everyone leaves.

I'm so sorry. It breaks my heart to think of the pain this family must be experiencing and that poor boy!. I hope he's found peace.

I don't know if this has already been posted...

MSNBC retracts false Palin story; others duped

By DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

(11-12) 20:33 PST NEW YORK, (AP) --

MSNBC was the victim of a hoax when it reported that an adviser to John McCain had identified himself as the source of an embarrassing story about former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, the network said Wednesday.

David Shuster, an anchor for the cable news network, said on air Monday that Martin Eisenstadt, a McCain policy adviser, had come forth and identified himself as the source of a Fox News Channel story saying Palin had mistakenly believed Africa was a country instead of a continent.

Eisenstadt identifies himself on a blog as a senior fellow at the Harding Institute for Freedom and Democracy. Yet neither he nor the institute exist; each is part of a hoax dreamed up by a filmmaker named Eitan Gorlin and his partner, Dan Mirvish, the New York Times reported Wednesday.

The Eisenstadt claim had mistakenly been delivered to Shuster by a producer and was used in a political discussion Monday afternoon, MSNBC said.

"The story was not properly vetted and should not have made air," said Jeremy Gaines, network spokesman. "We recognized the error almost immediately and ran a correction on air within minutes."

Gaines told the Times that someone in the network's newsroom had presumed the information solid because it was passed along in an e-mail from a colleague.

Just goes to show the state of journalism today.

When I started college in 1976, I was a journalism major. The very first thing our professor taught us: "Your readers should never know your feelings on a subject. If you write an article and you do share your opinion, you get an "F" for the semester." So, 99% of today's journalists would have failed his class.

The next, "Do not go to press without being 100% sure of your facts."
"Uh, professor, um my source is my friend who sent me an email"-yeah, he would have been kicked out of class.

 

[Octoberbride03]

Morning everybody

Happy friday. I'm so glad the weekend is here. Gray skies and rain again for the weather here. Hopefully it'll clear up by tomorrow.

 

[Zippa D Doodah]

Does this make anyone else nervous besides me? Like the part about bypassing the media to get his message across?

I'm thinking of signing up myself --

Simple. H is going to stab his buddies in the back. He's basically telling the DNC to go pound sand. He wants to maintain his own private network so he can influence public opinion at the grass roots level; rule with an iron fist; maintain utmost power for longest time possible. The word "Machiavellian" comes to mind.